Headline news this week is the emergence of an important fork of OpenOffice called LibreOffice.

This fork comes under the umbrella of the recently established "documentfountation.org" whose remit is to support a fully FOSS implementation of Openoffice without any non-free extensions, separate from Oracle and which fully supports the ideals of the ODF file standard.

All the major Linux distros including Debian and Ubuntu will fully support this fork and expect that this will become their default office package. It's as yet not known if Oracle itself will join the gang or if it will donate the name OpenPoffice to the foundation.

This has implications for Puppy Linux as well. We will need sfs packages for this current LibreOffice Beta.

I have tried to do an experimental compile under Debian Squeeze but no joy so-far I'm afraid. At this early stage supplied build is also a bit unstable running under Debian Squeeze, but this is likely to be rapidly fixed.

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